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UF builds on a strong foundation in polymer chemistry   In retrospect, chemist Brent Sumerlin says, landing at the University of Florida in the Butler Lab seems like destiny. The lab is named for UF Professor George Butler, one of the pioneers in polymer chemistry from his... Read More →

A new technology is changing the face – and pace – of cell science A year or so ago, University of Florida toxicologist Chris Vulpe started getting calls, first from one colleague, then another, and another. They had an idea and wanted to use CRISPR in their labs, but had... Read More →

As the University of Florida shuttered offices in advance of Hurricane Irma, wind engineer and hurricane researcher Forrest Masters and his team readied a convoy of equipment, fueled up and headed into the storm. “We wanted to get into position, so that the eyewall would pass... Read More →

Stephanie Cruz did a double take when she entered one of her computer science classes at the University of Florida in the first week of fall 2015. A woman was teaching it. A woman also was teaching the next class — and the next. Cruz, now a senior, went from a college career in... Read More →

A University of Florida’s Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering professor is among 106 researchers President Obama on Thursday named as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on... Read More →

Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering  Nuclear engineer Kelly Jordan is the director of UF’s training reactor, one of the oldest university reactors in the United States. The nuclear industry is one of the last to switch from analog to digital technology, and the UF reactor... Read More →

Mat Chandler doesn’t have a magic wand or a vial of pixie dust, but at the intersection of art, science and technology that is the University of Florida Infinity Fab Lab, he conjures up magic all the same. Chandler is the guiding force behind the Fab Lab, likely the most... Read More →

When Merrie Shaw was working on her science fair project on nematodes in sixth grade, the topic resonated with her because the pests were a problem for her family’s Alachua farm. Spraying pesticides meant leaving the land fallow for six months to let the toxic pesticides wear off... Read More →

A dozen or so polymer jellyfish float in an aquarium in Tommy Angelini’s engineering lab, not alive but freaks of nature nonetheless, about to rock the world. Just months ago, these jellyfish could not have existed; there was no way to make something so soft. That changed in... Read More →

An outstanding high school science fair project has led to a University of Florida College of Agricultural and Life Sciences freshman being invited to attend the Nobel Prize ceremonies in Stockholm, Sweden in December. UF CALS scholarship recipient Carly Crump won the all-expense... Read More →